A working party with myself and Jordan busy removing the weeds down between the tracks a back breaking job but this effort resulted in pristine looking tracks. 

11th February 2011. Trains used to operate at least once a moth during the Autumn and Winter season. The powers that presently be desired to get rid of this "Margaret" coach in 2013 a coach which is ideally suited for parents and children. The attempted sale of the coach hit the buffer stops after consultation with the original funders (including the former mayor of Thorne and Moorends) who helped to raise £6000 give or take the odd pound for which I had arranged, found out what was happening to their fund raising efforts.   

Not to be confused with another Whitwell station in Newport, of the Godshill & St. Lawrence Railway closed in 1952 this one is in the East Midlands. The station we looked was not the original  The line and the original station were built by the Midland Railway. They were opened for passenger traffic on 1 June 1875 and closed in October 1964, though freight traffic continued. The station was dismantled and rebuilt, brick by brick, at the heritage railway at Butterley in 1981. However the original station house has survived as you see above.  The line reopened in stages through the 1990s, with the final, northernmost, section from Mansfield Woodhouse through Whitwell to Worksop reopening in 1998. The modern Whitwell station is on the original site, but a wholly new structure. When the line opened in 1875 two railway companies provided services through Whitwell:

Whitwell once had a colliery of which a few traces can still be found to the left is some track from the narrow gauge railway, a building and on the main railway line the former connection to colliery that has been disconnected. Soon the tunnel will be disappearing as the line is re-routed. 

My friend Ian Gilligan has sent me these photographs of Bawtry Railway Station as it used to be. Now East Coast, and others trains pass through the ghost of the station which is now a mass of overhead electric wires and pylons.

A total contrast to the previous views as a train passes through for London. A few remains of the now disused goods platform (?) survives next to the main line,   

Possibly the original station wall hidden behind a pile of debris etc., whilst again possibly the steps that led to what I believe might have been the steps up to the station. Station Hill the name on one of the new bungalows that back onto the former Platform 2.   

Other reminders are the road sign and the Station Hotel pub which still remains as a pub and has not been converted to flats or pulled down to make way for a mini housing estate. 

Now named Station Hill Cottage what is clearly the architecture of this former railway building now privately owned. 

52 years of trolleybus operation came to an end in 1971 at Teesside when the former Reading trolleybus built in 1961. In 1987 on the 15th November the vehicle made an appearance on the now dismantled Test Track wiring alongside Doncaster Racecouse. This is the only other vehicle that operated (using its batteries) under the unique wires. The trolleybus resides presently at the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft. To the right is a modern trolleybus in this photograph taken on the 17th September 2012. Saltzburg recently took delivery of more brand new trolleybuses. It remains to be seen if Britain is to return to trolleybus operation in Leeds but it is an uphill struggle at the moment. But we will see.